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The Best Horror of the Year

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From Ellen Datlow ("the venerable queen of horror anthologies" (New York Times) comes a new entry in the series that has brought you stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman comes thrilling stories, the best horror stories available.

For more than four decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the thirteenth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Laird Barron, Mira Grant, and many others.

With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this light creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness as articulated by today's most challenging and exciting writers.

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    • Library Journal

      October 1, 2021

      Each year, Datlow, the world's most acclaimed horror editor, selects the very best in English-language short horror fiction published in print and online from all over the world. The stories must have been published during the previous year, in English. Datlow has a track record of breaking new voices who are now household names, such as Stephen Graham Jones, through these volumes, and this year is no different. While mainstays (such as Jones, Gemma Files, and Nathan Ballingrud) are featured, emerging names (A.C. Wise, Pete Sutton, Thana Niveau, Catriona Ward) make up the bulk of the volume (24 stories, one novella, and one poem). Datlow's keen editorial eye allows her to craft an anthology that represents the full breadth of the genre and ensures an enjoyable reading experience. VERDICT An essential purchase for the quality of stories included in the volume, as well as for Datlow's extensive "Summation" section, in which she recaps the year in awards, key publications, and horror news. Readers will not find a more comprehensive (yet still easily digestible) snapshot of the entire genre anywhere else.

      Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from October 26, 2009
      After 22 years of pulling the horror content for the now-discontinued Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series, Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound
      ) goes solo with this stellar start to a new “best of” annual. As in the past, her picks confirm that “horror” is a storytelling approach with endlessly inventive possibilities. In E. Michael Lewis's “Cargo,” a haunting Twilight Zone
      –type tale, an airplane picks up something otherworldly as part of its latest transport. Euan Harvey's creepy “Harry and the Monkey” turns an urban legend into reality. R.B. Russell's “Loup-garou” is a highly original shape-shifter story with a subtle psychological twist, and Daniel LeMoal's “Beach Head” a bracing conte cruel
      with a Lord of the Flies
      cast. In addition to the richly varied stories, Datlow provides her usual comprehensive coverage of the year in horror in an introduction that's indispensable reading for horror aficionados.

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